The schools of medieval England . , only preserved in a Jacobean transcriptor translation, make it plain that the school was the first it was provided that the Chancellor of Salisbury, theeducational officer of the diocese, he shall do present an ablekeeper and a sufficient teacher of grammar at every avoidance .On every feastful day the keeper was to attend the churchand perform service. But all other days that he intend anddo his diligent labour to teach and inform all such childrenand other persons that shall come to the place, which isordained and deputed them to teach in within
The schools of medieval England . , only preserved in a Jacobean transcriptor translation, make it plain that the school was the first it was provided that the Chancellor of Salisbury, theeducational officer of the diocese, he shall do present an ablekeeper and a sufficient teacher of grammar at every avoidance .On every feastful day the keeper was to attend the churchand perform service. But all other days that he intend anddo his diligent labour to teach and inform all such childrenand other persons that shall come to the place, which isordained and deputed them to teach in within Heytesbury,and . . shall teach from the beginning of learning until suchseason as they learn sufficient or competent [knowledge ?] ofgrammar; no school hire take of no person or take [save of]such as their friends may spend j^io or above, or else thatwill give freely; and that he daily attend and keep his that this Free Grammar School of Heytesbury was evenmore prominently the first object of the foundation than even. THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY AND HUMANISM 273 that at Eton or Ewelme, where the Free Grammar Schoolmasterwas only the second person in the establishment, not the is emphasized by a proviso that if the Chancellor couldnot in two months find a sufKcient teacher he was tempor-arily to put in a convenable and honest priest . . untosuch season that an able keeper and sufficient teacher may beprovided. Another statute provided for an usher to teachin the school and be Deputy overseer of the poor men. Thekeepers oath was to keep all the ordinances made for theconservation and good rule of the school and almshouse;putting the school first The then usher called Park Miles,now blind and may not see was received as a poor future usher was to be so received, for by the receivingthe usher into the said house the schoolmaster . . would thinkthat such as be usher should have meat and drink of the saidalmshouse, the which we would in no wise they never have,
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